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Show HN: Sx – an open-source package manager for AI skills, MCPs, and commands

Open-source package manager for AI skills just shipped. Here's why it matters for your agent stack.

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The KeyNews take

Why it matters

A new open-source tool (Sx) aims to standardize how developers package and distribute AI skills, MCPs, and commands—lowering friction for AI agent composition and reducing vendor lock-in. Early-stage but signals growing infrastructure layer around modular AI workflows.

The key facts

10 to know
  1. Sx is an open-source package manager for AI skills, MCPs (Model Context Protocols), and commands

  2. Published on GitHub (sleuth-io/sx)

  3. Launched on Hacker News (Show HN submission)

  4. Early community interest (5 points, 1 comment as of publication snapshot)

  5. Targets the emerging AI agent/workflow composition ecosystem

  6. Project: Sx – package manager for AI skills, MCPs, and commands

  7. Status: Open-source, published on GitHub

  8. Use case: Simplifies skill and MCP distribution for AI workflows

  9. Community signal: Posted to Hacker News (early-stage traction indicator)

  10. Published: May 15, 2026

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